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2006-07-29

The Fastest Workstation Right Now is a single-CPU Dell?

I've had long and elaborate debates with myself over my dubious need to rebuild my workstation. After drooling over dual-CPU dual-core Opteron systems, this little review of the newest Intel-systems and its After Effects' benchmarks made the angel on my right shoulder smirk at the budget-busting devil on my left, and makes me glad I kept my credit card in the wallet for so long.

Check out these benchmarks that shows a single-CPU system run in circles around the competition. Even though I believe the other systems aren't the fastest available on the market, you can't beat the price of the new Intel Core 2 Extreme system.

Dell Precision 390 Review and Benchmarks

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4 Comments:

  • Aug the 7:th Apple released there new Pro Macs. Real good compete!!!
    www.apple.com. See the Keynote in the Quicktime area.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Thursday, August 10, 2006  

  • Nicklas, I just posted a link to HD for Indies' roundup of all the coverage. Not only does the Mac Pro seem to be faster than anything else, it's also cheaper than Dell's workstations. Go figure...

    By Blogger Jonas Hummelstrand, at Tuesday, August 15, 2006  

  • Thanks for the link. Must save some mony now... My next Workstation must be a MacPro i think. Wonder when After Effects will be Universal Binary. Then we have to take another look at the benchmarks. :))

    For now I have to play with my Sony Vaio with OSX intel. It realy works.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Tuesday, August 15, 2006  

  • SRPlus.

    It really depends on what you want the workstation for. For 2d then I would go for Mac, but for 3d and data crunching Intel and AMD based PC’s still have the edge. I am thinking of buying a new workstation and have checked every manufacturer that I could find and this is the fastest workstation on the market at the moment from what I have found, but the price tag is a bit high.

    http://www.armari.co.uk/system.asp?SysID=1119

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Monday, August 25, 2008  

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